Despite an ongoing tight national job market, casinos nationwide are hiring. Regional casinos also are hiring, but the most sought-after jobs are in corporate strategy, and most of those are in Las Vegas.
The owner of airline Allegiant Air this week announced the formation of Allegiant Systems, a joint venture with AvIntel and Lixar IT focusing on airline industry automation.
Las Vegas-based Cannery Casino Resorts LLC has received another boost from Wall Street after successfully refinancing its debt. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services boosted its corporate credit rating on the company from "B-" to "B" after Cannery closed on $590 million in new senior secured credit deals.
A Righthaven LLC copyright lawsuit attorney who has been missing in action for seven months resurfaced Wednesday and publicly aired his grievances about his experience with the company.
A few years back, casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp., or at least its investors, were rumored to be looking at buying the stalled and unfinished Fontainebleau casino-resort project on the Las Vegas Strip.
Property also to undergo room renovations, company says
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Caesars Entertainment Corp. is working on plans to refurbish its small Las Vegas Strip property Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall & Saloon, which an executive says will be the site of a high-profile nightclub.
The National Labor Relations Board today found Station Casinos of Las Vegas violated federal labor law in dozens of instances in its response to Culinary Union organizing efforts.
Uptown Professional Magazine has named MGM Resorts International executive Phyllis James to its 2012 list of the top 100 executives in corporate America.
The legal battle over tip-sharing at Wynn Las Vegas is turning into a community free-for-all, with religious and progressive groups and another union weighing in against the policy.
As Boyd Gaming Corp. racks up awards for the online, mobile and social media features of its casino customer loyalty club, the Las Vegas company appears poised to be a force in the emerging social and online gaming sectors. It regularly beats out much bigger companies, both in and out of the gaming industry.
The union behind the old casinoleaks-Macau website has turned its attention to Caesars Entertainment Corp. of Las Vegas with a new site called Caesars-Insider.
Even as the broader stock market fell this week, most big Las Vegas casino and gaming supply company stocks rose. The biggest gainer locally was Bally Technologies Inc.
The Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ and Beer and American Burger Works restaurants at the Excalibur hotel-casino in Las Vegas will remain closed after a court hearing Friday.
The bankrupt and closed Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ & Beer and American Burger Works restaurants are suing the Excalibur hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip in a bid to reopen. A lawsuit filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Las Vegas on Thursday says the jointly-managed restaurants were effectively evicted Wednesday.
The Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ & Beer restaurant and its sister establishment, American Burger Works, both at the Excalibur, closed Wednesday and their owners filed for bankruptcy protection.
Analysts hiked their profit forecasts Tuesday for Bally Technologies Inc. of Las Vegas after the company said it signed contracts to sell or lease more than 4,000 video gaming terminals in Illinois over the next two years.
Las Vegas-based casino supplier Bally Technologies Inc. today said it signed a deal to provide its online gaming platform to the Stratosphere and its sister properties in Southern Nevada.
Las Vegas attorney Marc John Randazza sues copyright infringers one day and defends them the next. “There’s nothing wrong with doing both sides of copyright cases,” Randazza said.
A federal judge on Friday threw out the Dotty’s tavern and slot parlor chain lawsuit against Clark County, ruling county commissioners have broad powers to regulate such locals’ gaming establishments.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. is disputing a key argument by dissident Wynn board member Kazuo Okada as Okada presses to be reinstated as the company’s largest shareholder. As he heads toward an October court showdown with Wynn Resorts, Okada has challenged the company’s move in February to redeem his shares and replace them at a 30 percent discount with a $1.9 billion note.
Full House Resorts saw its stock jump 17 percent this week to close at $3.70, while Caesars Entertainment Corp.'s fell 9.2 percent to $6.87. Four of the largest casino operators saw their stock prices fall this week.
Even as its key board members jockey for position with multiple lawsuits, Wynn Resorts Ltd. is the only Nevada firm on Fortune magazine's new list of the nation's 100 fastest-growing companies.
The Nevada Gaming Commission today approved licenses for three more companies to participate in the state’s new online intrastate poker industry. Licenses were issued for slot machine maker WMS Industries Inc. and casino operator American Casino & Entertainment Properties LLC.
Five Nevadans appear on the new Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America, though some of the local gaming titans saw their fortunes decline because of reductions in their companies' stock prices.
Casino resort owner Wynn Resorts Ltd. fired back Tuesday at board member Kazuo Okada in their dispute over whether Okada can make nominations to the Wynn board. Okada issued an open letter to shareholders Monday as part of a regulatory filing in the dispute.
Heading toward a court showdown, Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada today released a letter to Wynn Resorts Ltd. shareholders criticizing Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn. The Wynn board of directors has canceled Okada’s $2.9 billion stock position and replaced it at a 30 percent discount with a $1.9 billion note.
Attorneys for the opposition to Las Vegas Mob Experience developer Jay Bloom are using an English court ruling from centuries ago to try to disprove what they call nonsensical and fraudulent legal claims he has made in a case about mob artifacts.
A state judge on Friday fined Las Vegas Sands Corp. $25,000 for failing to disclose that key information in a fired executive’s lawsuit had been transferred from China to the United States.
The builder of the flawed Harmon on the Las Vegas Strip says hotel owner CityCenter has improperly engaged expert “spin doctors” to influence potential jurors in an upcoming trial over construction defects and unpaid bills there.
MGM Resorts International announced Friday that it promoted a Mandalay Bay executive to general manager of the Monte Carlo hotel-casino. Patrick Miller succeeds Anton Nikodemus, the former president of the Monte Carlo who was promoted to president of MGM Resorts casino marketing in August.
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over a failed real estate investment that would have included an Elvis Presley-themed casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
Casino owner Derek Stevens is putting his stamp on downtown Las Vegas. Stevens is co-owner and CEO of the newly rebranded D Las Vegas (formerly Fitzgeralds) and has owned the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino since 2008.
Moody's Investors Service has shifted its outlook to positive on Cannery Casino Resorts LLC of Las Vegas thanks to a new financing deal and expectations that Cannery will continue to be profitable on a cash flow basis.
The Tropicana closed its 17-month-old poker room Tuesday, apparently after facing tough competition from other casinos. The closure was reported by Anthony Curtis’ Las Vegas Advisor website, and it was confirmed late Tuesday by the Tropicana.
Las Vegas-based casino industry supplier Gaming Partners International has sued a former sales executive, accusing him of misappropriation of its trade secrets.
Gaming supplier Shuffle Master Inc. reported a higher quarterly profit Monday as casinos worldwide bought and leased more of its card shufflers and slot machines.
The State Gaming Control Board made history again Thursday with the first approval for a marketing company to participate in online intrastate poker in Nevada.
A casino in northeast Las Vegas has been temporarily closed after its roof sustained structural damage. The Siegel Slots and Suites casino at 5011 E. Craig Road, near Nellis Boulevard, was shut down Friday after some of the trusses in the roof broke.